interesting

Hooray for Michigan State . The story begins at Michigan State
University with a mechanical engineering professor named
Indrek Wichma n. Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim
Student's Association.

The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the
Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad a
terrorist. The group had complained the cartoons were 'hate
speech.' Enter Professor Wichman. In his e-mail, he said the
following:

Dear Muslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical
Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest. I am
offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like
beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings,
suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in
Turkey ), burnings of Christian churches, the continued
persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of
Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and
women (called 'whores' in your culture), the murder of film
directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris
France. This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and
academic, and many, many of my colleagues.

I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and
uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as
you proceed with your infantile 'protests.' If you do not like
the values of the West - see the 1st Amendment - you are free
to leave . I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that
option. Please return to your ancestral homelands and build
them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.

Cordially, I. S. Wichman
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn't
like this too well. They're demanding that Wichman be
reprimanded and the university impose mandatory diversity
training for faculty and mandate a seminar on hate and
discrimination for all freshmen.

Now the local chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray. CAIR,
the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn't
believe that the good professor had the right to express his
opinion. For its part, the university is standing its ground
in support of Professor Wichman, saying the e-mail was
private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his
remarks.

dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and
uncivilized slave-trading Moslems...

tuubaaku wrote:Was that the right way to stand for truth?

dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and
uncivilized slave-trading Moslems...

Is that true of the American Muslims he was addressing? Is it something we should call them even if it is true?

YoungStonewall wrote:If you understood what Islam really teaches, and encourages, you would have no problem what he said. Many Americans have been fooled by the happy smiling face of Islam here in the states, but there is alot of darkness at the core of Islam.

Did you know that the only way for a Muslim to have assurance of 'faith' and know he is going to heaven is to kill an infidel (Christian)?

Sounds pretty aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized to me.

There is a big difference between attacking an individual and a system of belief. I loathe the doctrines taught by the Catholic church and will gladly attack them (the doctrines), but would refrain from attacking Catholics. And yes it is something we should call them if it is true. Most people are not familiar with the Muslim slave trade that goes on even today.

tuubaaku wrote:
Yes, there is a difference. That's basically my point. He says, "I counsel you..." and then goes on to call that student association dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, uncivilized, and slave-trading. I know they felt like he was attacking them as individuals, and I'm not sure I would disagree with their perspective that he was attacking them.

It looks like I should have added a little clarification to the question about calling them something even if it's true. I'm talking about *directly* to them, like this letter was.